Drive mappings. A frequent problem where I work. When a users machine fails completely, IT is pretty quick to replace it. But the user says they are still incapable of doing their job because he or she has lost all the file-shares they had mapped as drives. And these drive mappings [...]

It’s been a few months now since I’ve gone completely Linux on my computers. As you would expect you start figuring out the little quirks of a system from day to day use. I’ve been doing my best to make notes as things crop up and what the solution is.
One of my more [...]

I got some Doublemint gum in my Christmas stocking this year. It came in a nice little that I’ll eventually use to put junk that I refuse to throw away. Generally I’m not a big gum chewer. Can’t throw all the gum away though because that would just be wasteful. What [...]

Now that you have Windows XP virtualizing on Ubuntu using VirtualBox, it’s reasonable that you will at some point want to use a USB device under Windows. I personally would really like to be able to sync my iPod with iTunes. It takes a bit of tweaking to Ubuntu – Intrepid Ibex to [...]

Welcome back.  This next portion of the VirtualBox tutorial is going to go over setting up a virtual machine to install your desired operating system on.  At this point you should have already covered the easy installation steps of VirtualBox Part 1.
Starting up VirtualBox should present the main screen.  <sarcasm> I’m sure this is very [...]